Bill Text: NJ A2125 | 2012-2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Eliminates requirement for CATV companies to provide advance notification of price decreases or addition of channel offerings. *

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-09-19 - Approved P.L.2012, c.54. [A2125 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2012-A2125-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 2125

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

215th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED JANUARY 30, 2012

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  JOHN J. BURZICHELLI

District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Eliminates requirement for CATV companies to provide advance notification of price decreases.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  

An Act concerning certain cable television price changes and supplementing P.L.1972, c.186 (C.48:5A-1 et seq.).

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Notwithstanding any law, rule, regulation or order to the contrary, a cable television company shall not be required to provide advance notification to the Office of Cable Television, to the cable television company's subscribers, or to the municipalities in its service area, prior to implementing a decrease in the price it charges its subscribers for cable television service, provided that the decrease in price is not due to a change in service.

     Nothing in this section shall be construed to supersede, or deny a subscriber any rights or protections provided by, the New Jersey consumer fraud act, P.L.1960, c.39 (C.56:8-1 et seq.).

 

     2.    This act shall take effect on the 60th day after the date of enactment, but the Board of Public Utilities may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance thereof as shall be necessary for the implementation of this act.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill eliminates the requirement for cable television companies to provide advance notification of price decreases to the Office of Cable Television, their subscribers, and to affected municipalities, prior to implementing a price decrease for cable television service, provided that the price decrease is not a result of a change in service.

     Under current regulations, any cable television company which implements a decrease in its prices for providing cable television service to its subscribers is required to provide advance notification of such a price decrease to the Office of Cable Television, to each of its subscribers, and to each municipality in its service area.